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Offline Chantelle Meiring

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Re: Wilson family.
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 09 February 21 06:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi Heather  :) it would be great to have contact with you. My email is (*)

I look forward to hearing from you.
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Chantelle

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Offline Ian Nelson

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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 09 February 21 09:53 GMT (UK) »
FAO Heather and Chantelle.
Possible Wilson cousins could be found by searching the History of Forth & Wilsontown.
A fabulous story of rags to riches  ... brothers who were miners and eventually owned mines, then moved south to England and became owners of a shipping line with at least one ship named after one of them, 'the George Wilson'.
I've just made massive changes to my pc files but I'll locate the facts sometime soon and post them for you.
cheers, Ian
PS.  I stumbled across them whilst researching a distant connection in Liverpool & Lancashire .. see also Wilson-Ffrance, another intriguing story.
Norfolk, Nelsons of Gt Ryburgh, Gooch, Howman, COLLISONS,  Ainger, Couzens, Batrick (Norfolk & Dorset), Tubby ( also of Yorkshire) Cathcarts of Ireland, Lancashire & Isle of Wight) Dickinsons of Morecambe and Lancaster, Wilson of Poulton-le-Sands and Broughton.  Wilson - Ffrance of Rawcliffe,  Mitchells of Isle of Wight. Hair of Ayrshire, Williamson of Tradeston, Glasgow. Nelsons in Australia with Haywards Heath connections.